Outside the Beltway

It is worth repeating

The airlines hate hidden city ticketing and are cracking down.

Virginia’s governor has raised a ton of money.

This makes four.

A counterintuitive move.

A seeming case of unequal justice.

The leader of The Band is gone at 80.

A new book looks at the confluence of geography and disadvantage.

A pandemic-inspired perk seems to be going away.

The one we’ve all been waiting for.

Our Pacific territories are giving more than they’re getting.

The English are having a periodic reassertion of the “right to roam.”

The Irish singer-activist is gone at 56.

A deep tradition rightly under scrutiny.

After other controls are applied, household income is still a huge advantage.

Some New York Republicans are fighting for their constituents and against the GOP leadership.

It really is rife with problems.

Sigh.

The North Dakota governor really, really wants to be on TV.

The evidence is pretty thin.

The inevitable has happened. Now for the fallout.

Another call for letting kids be kids.

All states but one receive more in federal money than they pay out in taxes.

Stories of interest/that I am not going to get around to writing more about. (And yes, these are really all open tabs that I want to close).

A legal defense without merit.

An extremely unlikely scenario.

The Wall Street Journal failed a key test.

We’re in uncharted waters.

This time, it’s the feds.

A Brooklyn neighborhood is experimenting with a hybrid approach.

Ukraine is heavily censoring foreign media.

Damned if they do and damned if they don’t. Sometimes both.

They join DC and San Francisco.

A columnist argues his failed launch was emblematic of a larger problem.

A rare man and a rare milestone.

Out Trumping Trump is possible because of Trump.

The US intelligence community and Silicon Valley are warning of a major threat.

The leveling of Bakhmut is the latest Russian atrocity.

When prejudice overrides simple humanity.

The times, they are a-changin’.

When we do it, it’s negotiation. When they do it, it’s hostage taking—and terrorism.

Striking the balance between cruel and misleading.

Car manufacturers are slowly removing an old format.

The show about nothing has a big legacy.

The mommy blogger known as “Dooce” has taken her own life.

The courts can’t save us from ourselves.

Long after most people returned to normal, public health agencies have given in.

The punishments are increasing as the worst of the worst are sentenced.